DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with simple linear cross

NameTablet

Artist Artist unrecorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (5.3 × 3.8 × 1.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.139

Object numberA.2014.26.139

DescriptionTablet with simple linear cross in lower center. Shaft is an enclosed, tall, thin rectangle. Two pairs of faint parallel lines on both sides of shaft form crossbar. Organic shape in lower left corner of tablet. Probable matching shape on opposite side is hard to discern. Horizontal line extends across top of tablet and pair of short diagonal lines point down and out from opposite ends of horizontal line.